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...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite explores the far-out ways scientists are developing to transmit words, pictures - even thoughts - in "The Communications Explosion." Helping Walter get the message across are M.I.T.'s Computer Scientist Joseph Weizenbaum, Science Fiction Writer Arthur C. Clarke, Automation Expert John Diehold. Premiere...
...None of these devices is really that remarkable," insists Continental President Ben Jamil. Indeed, Continental and its competitors are already working on even subtler devices that will use microscopically small integrated circuits and transmit sound on light beams. "The beauty of this business," says Jamil, "is that if you can imagine a device, it can probably be built." As if to prove his point last week, he put on sale a "Dick Tracy" wristwatch transmitter that can keep a private eye or a government agent in contact with an accomplice 200 ft. away. The transmitter is so sensitive that...
...Newspapers try to transmit facts," says Voice of America Director and onetime NBC Correspondent John Chancellor, "but television is the transmission of experience in its rawest form." Putting the pageantry of a Kennedy or a Churchill funeral into countless living rooms, is an achievement that the most moving newspaper description cannot duplicate; the sight of a young Dominican being shot in the back by a U.S. paratrooper can jolt the home viewer far more than any account of the same tragedy in print...
Then there is the matter of money. The expense of flying film from Viet Nam, for example, developing it on the West Coast and then leasing a line for $3,000 an hour to transmit the pictures to New York for inclusion in a program, is likely to have an overbearing effect on news judgment. Even if the pictures do not live up to the raves cabled in by the man in the field (who probably had not seen them and was depending on his photographer's word), they may price their way onto the program...
...American living room. In the confusion of World War I, Sarnoff's memo had been pigeonholed. Now he dug it out, showed it to Owen Young. Sarnoff's boss was enthusiastic, but the RCA board would agree to put up only $2,000-which Sarnoff spent to transmit a broadcast of the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight championship fight.- Heard by 200,000 wireless enthusiasts, the broadcast caused a sensation, and RCA began developing sets immediately. By 1926, sales had passed $83 million, and Sarnoff was a vice president in charge of its newest venture: the NBC radio network...